To lift up my race : the essential writings of Samuel Robert Cassius / edited by Edward J. Robinson.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cassius, Samuel Robert, 1853-1931
Other Authors: Robinson, Edward J., 1967-
Language:English
Published: Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee Press, [2008], ©2008.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Religion.
Sermons, American > African American authors.
Black theology.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Physical Description:xxiv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The worlds of Samuel Robert Cassius
  • Racial uplift through evangelism
  • "The one object of my life" : Cassius's evangelism program
  • Family matters : a glimpse into Cassius's home life
  • Friends in white and black : Cassius's relationships with common and uncommon people
  • Racial uplift through religious education
  • "To lift up my race" : Cassius's educational program
  • The Cassius canon : Cassius's use of the Bible
  • Racial uplift through race pride
  • The Black man's paradise : Cassius and the Oklahoma experience
  • America's "race problem" : Cassius and race relations
  • Racial uplift through writing and traveling
  • "The third birth of a nation" : racial thought
  • The first globetrotter : many sojourns.